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Former Virginia Republican chairman Shaun Kenney said Stewart chose high-level negativity to "drive down turnout to the fanatical base and lean on that base to turn out. A closer-than-ever-imagined race in Virginia's Republican primary for governor taught the GOP an important lesson Tuesday: Underestimate the mini-Trumps at your own risk. (more...)

The states, most led by Democrats, represent $7 trillion of the US gross domestic product, or 38 percent. The government did make good on a promise to spend more on the military today, announcing an increase in annual defence spending of $14 billion over the next 10 years. (more...)

Sessions appeared before the Senate intelligence committee as part of its investigation into possible ties between Trump campaign officials and Russian Federation. Comey told senators he thought publicizing the contents of those memos would prompt the appointment of a special counsel in the Russian Federation investigation. (more...)

Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn. - who initially resisted calls to move ahead on a measure to sanction Russian Federation - said earlier this week that he had also written a fourth measure but never released it. Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign has rocked Washington and led to multiple investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. (more...)

Instead of attacking global warming itself, Trump now says the Paris accord is a bad deal for the United States. Trump also faced a backlash at home where Democratic state governors, city mayors and powerful companies drew up plans to meet the pact's greenhouse gas emission targets. (more...)

The government has accused the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network of carrying out the May 31 attack. The funeral, in a district in the north of Kabul , was attended by several senior Jamiat politicians, including Abdullah, who was in the crowd of mourners when the bombs were detonated but who escaped unharmed. (more...)

The bodies of the Army JCO and BSF head constable were mutilated by Pakistan border action team (BAT) comprising its regular troops and terrorists. Jammu: Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed in retaliation by the Indian Army on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. (more...)

Clark said she plans to bring the house back in early June and made the decision to test the will of the legislature after consulting constitutional experts. - Legislation would be introduced in the first sitting of the legislature to ban corporate and union donations and contributions from non-residents of British Columbia to the province's political parties, as well as placing limits on individual contributions and conduct a review of campaign finance and the Elections Act. (more...)

Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump obstructed justice by intervening in the probe into Russia's involvement in the election campaign, according to the Washington Post . (more...)

The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal reported special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump's conduct. And he repeatedly refused to reveal whether he had spoken to the president regarding James Comey's handling of the probe into Russian election meddling - which the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director believes to be the reason he was sacked. (more...)

Robert Mueller , who is carrying out a probe into potential Russian interference in the United States election, is to interview senior intelligence bosses, according to the Washington Post . Some Democrats in Congress have started to press for impeachment of Trump, citing obstruction of justice, but any move to start an impeachment process faces steep hurdles as it would require approval by the U.S. (more...)

Barnier this week acknowledged "sensitivity" in London at European Union suggestions that Britain might owe it some 60 billion euros in 2019 and said sorting out the issue soon would help a trade deal: "I would like to very quickly play down this question, and find concrete, pragmatic and just solutions", he said on Monday. (more...)

Baker and Scott last month urged Trump to continue the US commitment to the climate agreement. The three states have 68 million residents, represent a fifth of the USA economy and emit 10 percent of US -generated greenhouse gasses. "The bottom line is that the Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States". But critics of his move pointed out that renewable energy industries, particularly solar, are creating hundreds of thousands of jobs - far more than now exist in ... (more...)

The subpoenas were announced as the special counsel overseeing the governments investigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russian Federation has approved former FBI Director James Comey to testify before the Senate intelligence committee , according to a Comey associate. (more...)

A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee says a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia "is absurd ". Trump and the Justice Department have called these lawsuits baseless. Just days after Trump's inauguration in January, the government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of NY. (more...)

Michael Conaway, Republican of Texas, and Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California announced that they had sent a letter to the White House counsel, Don McGahn, asking "that he inform the committee whether any White House recordings or memoranda of Comey's conversations with President Trump now exist or have in the past". (more...)

In a panel discussion over the weekend on "Fox News Sunday", former House Speaker Newt Gingrich , a close unofficial adviser to Trump , called Mueller's investigation "a witch hunt." Rosenstein appointed Mueller to oversee the Russian Federation investigation on May 18. (more...)

Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel . Congressional Leadership Fund Is At it Again If you have been following the ads out of the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, then it probably comes to no surprise that an ad that makes this much of a stretch to attack Jon Ossoff is from none other than the Congressional Leadership Fund. (more...)

In comments on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the Senate's passage of the bill on "non-nuclear sanctions" against Iran was not unexpected given the legislature's history of hostility towards the Iranian nation. "Iran's armed forces will continue to defend the country's security and interests", the foreign ministry spokesman said. Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions.The United States and its ... (more...)

Under current Justice Department regulations, such a firing would have to be done by Attorney General Jeff Sessions' deputy, Rod Rosenstein, not the president- though those regulations could theoretically be set aside. Rosenstein said he has seen no evidence of good cause to fire the special prosecutor overseeing the Russian Federation investigation. Tuesday morning , Trump supporter Ari Fleischer, who served as President George W. (more...)